Do you have the right career strategy?

- What has fundamentally changed as a result of the 1990's boom, and what has remained the same in terms of personal career management and employment in general?

- What should you--employed full-time or otherwise--be doing to proactively manage your own career and professional development?

- How do hiring plans look as we enter 2003?

- If you are currently looking for a new position, what should you be doing but most likely are not?

For most of us, the job market and our ideas about our careers have changed dramatically since the late 1990s. Join the Wharton Club of Northern California and hear four seasoned professionals who will discuss their unique perspectives on career management, professional development, and the current job market.

Our panelists include:
Kent Black, Principal, Kent Black & Associates. Kent is a professional coach and former SVP of Drake Beam Morin and J. Walter Thompson.
Andy Knox, Managing Director, Korn-Ferry International
Susan Mackevich, VP of Staffing, Inovant--A Visa Solutions Company
David Theobald, Founder and Chairman of Netshare, the leading recruitment site on the internet for $100,000+ professionals.

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RSVP
Cost (appetizers included): $30 for WCNC members and members of affiliated alumni clubs; $40 for non-member alumni and guests

"At the door" registration will be an additional $10 per person
Pre-registration deadline: Monday, February 17th, 5:00pm

Cancellations must be received by February 17th, 2003. Use the contact information noted above.

This will be a very popular event, and while we do have a large room at the St. Francis Yacht Club, space will not be unlimited--please RSVP early to ensure a place! First-come, first-served.

Directions (if you haven't been to the St. Francis before, please do read the directions below!)
The St. Francis Yacht Club is located on the San Francisco cityfront (see maps), a little less than two miles east of the Golden Gate Bridge, on the bayfront side of the San Francisco Yacht Harbor. The clubhouse lies just across Marina Drive from the dome of the Palace of Fine Arts and a short walk from the Presidio.

Most auto traffic arrives from:

1. The east/downtown via Marina Boulevard, which provides easy access to the clubhouse parking lot.
2. The west via Doyle Drive, which brings in north-south freeway traffic from a connection point near the Golden Gate Bridge. Arriving on this route, you are not allowed to turn directly into the parking lot. Instead, you have to execute a "go around" in the neighborhood nearby and connect to the east/downtown arrival.

Approaching from the east/downtown, on Marina Boulevard, you will find the marina on your right, and the club will appear at the western end of the harbor as you look across the yacht basin. The clubhouse is a large, Spanish-style structure with a red-tiled roof and a surrounding of trees. You need to be in the right-hand lane. You will be approaching a stoplight, where Marina Boulevard angles off to the left and feeds directly into an elevated freeway leading to the Golden Gate Bridge. The right-hand lane offers your last chance to exit before entering that freeway. The right-hand lane leads straight ahead into Mason Street and the flat, Crissy Field area of the Presidio. However, a right turn toward the water--following the line of trees that form a wind break from the seabreeze--will put you on Yacht Road to the St. Francis YC.

Approaching from the west, you have probably come to San Francisco from points north or south:
If you are coming from the north on Highway 101, you will cross the Golden Gate Bridge to enter San Francisco. If you are coming from the south, your route will almost to the bridge before you turn. Either way, you then connect to freeway-fast Doyle Drive/US 101, which carries traffic from the Golden Gate Bridge area to the Marina District, almost to the yacht club's front door.

To get onto Doyle Drive, follow the signs for Marina, Downtown, US 101 or any combination.

Nearing the end of Doyle Drive (see below) follow the sign for Marina.

Doyle Drive (there are no signs to identify it) is an elevated structure for most of its length. It runs through the forested grounds of the Presidio/Golden Gate National Recreation Area and parallels the San Francisco cityfront. Near its end, Doyle Drive divides. You want to be in the left lanes to take the Marina exit. When you reach the stop light that marks the end of the freeway, the dome of the Palace of Fine Arts will stand on your right. The yacht harbor and the clubhouse (a large mission-style building with a red-tiled roof, surrounded by trees) will be visible on your left. But -- left turns are not allowed. Locals have any number of favorite routes from this point, none of which are perfectly convenient. Knowing that much, you may find it easier to be patient with what follows. Here are a few workable ways to reverse course to enter the club's parking area.

It is possible to get to the club by taking a hard right just short of the light (at the Lyon Street sign), then making a series of right turns through the parking lot of the Palace of Fine Arts, always keeping to the right where allowed, to loop under the freeway and come out inside the Presidio on Mason Street. This route returns you to the Doyle Drive/Marina Boulevard intersection, but now you're on the opposite, yacht club-accessible side of Marina Boulevard. Where Mason Street enters the intersection, a left turn is allowed. Many locals favor this route, but there won't be any signs to help you.

A different, orderly approach is to go through the light (Doyle Drive slows and becomes Marina Boulevard), then pick any of the Marina District streets on your right, drive around the block, re-enter Marina Boulevard going the opposite direction, and pick up the directions for coming from the east above. However, rounding a Marina District block means that, returning to Marina Boulevard, you will be entering a four-lane street from behind a stop sign in a small side street.